DC and the Arrow Family: the kids are all right. No wait, they're all white!
This post contains spoilers for Cry for Justice.
Well, Lian Harper has been killed off. The Girl in the Refrigerator will no doubt serve as angsty and rage-filled motivation for Red Arrow Arsenal Roy Harper and his former mentor Green Arrow.
It's bad enough that the Cry for Justice series has apparently been pretty crappy from start to finish, and is instigating a new era of GRIM!DARK stories about HEROES FAILING and alternatively moping and raging about WHERE'S THE LINE THEY SHOULDN'T CROSS and WHAT MAKES A HERO and blah, rage, blah, angst blah. Basically, it's what looks to be ugly, tiresome melodrama.
I have no real interest in a grim, dark Green Arrow. Give me a socially conscious, occasionally hypocritical, Errol Flynn wannabe who somehow has managed to have a bunch of cool kids and a fellow hero for a wife who can kick the asses of 95% of the world's population.
But what's really egregious, is when you pull back and look at the fate of the Arrow family kids in the past couple years. Dinah's adopted daughter Sin got sent away never to be seen or heard from since, Connor was shot from the clouds and was in a coma for a while before he was revived and apparently lost his entire personality/character, and now Roy's daughter Lian has been killed.
What do all these kids have in common? They're not all white.
Add to this the unceremonious way Cassandra Cain has been shoved out of the bat-family--not to mention DC's shabby treatment of Dwayne McDuffie and Milestone--and it all starts to look rather sketchy. Not cool, DC.
With the recent reorganization of management at DC Comics, I'm not sure where and to whom to direct my letters of complaint anymore. Not sure if there's even much of a point, if there ever was.
Well, Lian Harper has been killed off. The Girl in the Refrigerator will no doubt serve as angsty and rage-filled motivation for Red Arrow Arsenal Roy Harper and his former mentor Green Arrow.
It's bad enough that the Cry for Justice series has apparently been pretty crappy from start to finish, and is instigating a new era of GRIM!DARK stories about HEROES FAILING and alternatively moping and raging about WHERE'S THE LINE THEY SHOULDN'T CROSS and WHAT MAKES A HERO and blah, rage, blah, angst blah. Basically, it's what looks to be ugly, tiresome melodrama.
I have no real interest in a grim, dark Green Arrow. Give me a socially conscious, occasionally hypocritical, Errol Flynn wannabe who somehow has managed to have a bunch of cool kids and a fellow hero for a wife who can kick the asses of 95% of the world's population.
But what's really egregious, is when you pull back and look at the fate of the Arrow family kids in the past couple years. Dinah's adopted daughter Sin got sent away never to be seen or heard from since, Connor was shot from the clouds and was in a coma for a while before he was revived and apparently lost his entire personality/character, and now Roy's daughter Lian has been killed.
What do all these kids have in common? They're not all white.
Add to this the unceremonious way Cassandra Cain has been shoved out of the bat-family--not to mention DC's shabby treatment of Dwayne McDuffie and Milestone--and it all starts to look rather sketchy. Not cool, DC.
With the recent reorganization of management at DC Comics, I'm not sure where and to whom to direct my letters of complaint anymore. Not sure if there's even much of a point, if there ever was.